Core Performance: The Revolutionary Workout Program to Transform Your Body and Your Life

Core Performance is the first program that delivers strength and muscle mass, endurance and a lean body, balance and flexibility, athletic quickness and power—all in less than an hour a day.

At your core, there's an incredible athlete. Lean, yet powerful. Strong, but still flexible. World-class trainer Mark Verstegen shows you how to use your core to transform your body and your life, turn back the clock, speed up your metabolism, trim your waistline, build muscle, and gain boundless energy. More than a workout routine, Verstegen's 12-week, comprehensive program reveals the athlete that's always been inside you.

The Core Program shows you how to:

• Develop balanced fitness—strength, muscle mass, flexibility, power, and endurance—without overemphasizing or shortchanging any component.
• Recover from workouts so you get leaner and stronger when everyone else is just getting tired.
• Eat the right foods to get the body you want and the energy to have more fun with it.

Sure, you will get bigger muscles, a tighter waist, and more strength and power. But the biggest benefits come from the inside. The intense focus on the muscles of your core—abdominals, lower back, hips, and thighs—will help you stand taller and prevent the back pain from which most people eventually suffer. The detailed nutrition section guarantees that you'll feed your muscles, starve your fat, and get boundless energy when you need it most. And the attention you'll pay to recovery from your workouts will give you a straight path to the results you want.

The potential is within you, and the power to unleash that potential is within Core Performance.

• Core Performance Essentials: The Revolutionary Nutrition and Exercise Plan Adapted for Everyday Use
• Every Day Is Game Day: Train Like the Pros With a No-Holds-Barred Exercise and Nutrition Plan for Peak Performance
• New Functional Training for Sports
• Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance
• Powerful Mobility: Corrective Exercises for Better Performance and Joint Health
• Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In
• Bridging the Gap from Rehab to Performance
• The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
• Practical Fitness Testing: Analysis in Exercise and Sport (Fitness Professionals)
• Hypertrophy: Muscle fiber growth caused by mechanical tension